Foreword

This book is written for two main audiences.  The first is the new author. For example, this might be a writer working on, or planning, their debut novel.  I hope this book will help writers at this early stage to begin as they mean to go on, with an...

Introduction

January 19th, 2017 was the day that changed my writing life. On that day, I made the commitment to write for at least ten minutes every single day. And, as of this writing, I haven’t broken the chain once. Because of that promise, and the fact that I honoured...

About this book

The principle is breathtakingly simple: commit to writing for at least ten minutes every single day — and then see that promise through. You might now be tempted to throw down the book and start your first ten-minute block and, in that case, I say go for it. But then...

The Writer

Habits form our identity, not the other way around. A smoker doesn’t smoke because they’re a smoker; they’re a smoker because they smoke. In other words, do it to be it. This simple truth, which is covered at length in Atomic Habits, is nevertheless profound. A...